Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

I find all this incredible. There was no racist overtones to the Birther
questions I was hearing until the media brought that up. Now, it's like a
self-perpetuating meme, Birther=racists. We've seen this before with Tea
Party = racists. It's a tired tactic.

I understand the Birther concerns. Their concerns have finally been
addressed. However, one presumes because of using this as a political chip,
instead of nipping something in the bud by addressing it immediately, the
President did choose to wait YEARS to produce the document. While I think
the Birthers were silly to begin with, I also think (as a pragmatist) that
the President intentionally brought much of this on himself by stringing it
along, and has now created a culture of distrust and cynicism from what
started as a little healthy skepticism. Both sides deserve each other by
this point. I wash my hands of all of them.

Johne Cook
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> >Seriously how do *you* know someone is a racist, especially when they deny
> they are?
>
> When some traffics in negative stereotypes based on race and speaks of
> people of other races as inferior?  I'd call that being racist.
>
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